And I believe that’s more or less where Smith’s unit, the 2nd Texas, ended up. Jim Taylor sang an old East Tennessee version that converts the narrator into a Union soldier:

“My uniform of blue was turned into a purple red
When someone on a coming steed did sword me on the head
I sent a bullet to his heart and as he fell away
I saw the face of my dear father dressed in bloody gray”

I haven’t read it yet, but I like how the video is currently adjacent to the ad for Christian McWhirter’s “Battle Hymns.” Shiloh may well have inspired more non-history art than any other battle. I am looking forward to reading that book.